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CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 3 months ago
Sparse Inverse Covariance Selection via Alternating Linearization Methods
Gaussian graphical models are of great interest in statistical learning. Because the conditional independencies between different nodes correspond to zero entries in the inverse c...
Katya Scheinberg, Shiqian Ma, Donald Goldfarb
ICML
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Optimizing Classifier Performance via an Approximation to the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney Statistic
When the goal is to achieve the best correct classification rate, cross entropy and mean squared error are typical cost functions used to optimize classifier performance. However,...
Lian Yan, Robert H. Dodier, Michael Mozer, Richard...
CORR
2011
Springer
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12 years 8 months ago
Doubly Robust Smoothing of Dynamical Processes via Outlier Sparsity Constraints
Abstract—Coping with outliers contaminating dynamical processes is of major importance in various applications because mismatches from nominal models are not uncommon in practice...
Shahrokh Farahmand, Georgios B. Giannakis, Daniele...
ICML
2001
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Direct Policy Search using Paired Statistical Tests
Direct policy search is a practical way to solve reinforcement learning problems involving continuous state and action spaces. The goal becomes finding policy parameters that maxi...
Malcolm J. A. Strens, Andrew W. Moore